A few tried legs after day one but not as bad as expected.
Spirits lifted more by Jenko’s comments ‘don’t worry Stilly it’s all downhill,
or flat today’. The elevation chart belwo tells a different story of 5,000 ft of
climbing!
My shoulders dropped to a new low point when Garmin asked me
to turn left onto ‘5 mile hill’! Pretty sure it wasn’t 5 miles long but Eminem’s
movie wasn’t ‘8 miles’ long either. Both however were equally challenging and
brought about states of nausea not often welcomed.
Many bizarre things have already been witnessed so far and we are only two days in. One
being to consider why anyone would take tea bags to the toilet! Today’s mystery
had to be when having ridden 12 miles passing giant yellow signs advertising
Oakhampton show I overheard hear Kit and Jelly discussing what the 12 large marquee’s
in a field were for. Especially as we’d just passed a welcome to Oakhampton
sign!
Two different tales of the weather front toady. A glorious
morning took us to lunch. The Kit jinxed the day by highlighting we’d broken the
back of the day and the last part should be easy. No sooner had I applied more sun
screen had the heavens opened and we were lefts with torrential rain to
complete the last 28 miles. Thankfully it was mainly flat if not a little scary
at times!
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